Microsoft Live Labs today announced Seadragon Mobile for iPhone. With the help of Seadragon you can now see giga-pixel images on your iPhone.Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger. Browse an entire collection of photos from a single screen. You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or your Photosynth collection (or anybody else's). Seadragon Mobile is available for free at the iTunes App Store.
This clearly shows Microsoft isn't ignoring the iPhone after all!
Of course we all know it isn't. What I think Sartoris was trying to get at was that the naming is very very similar to the naming of Mozilla or Mozilla-based products.
Very strange for Microsoft to name something like this :/
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Very strange for Microsoft to name something like this :/
Yes. That is what I was getting at.
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Ballmer said in 2007 that the iPhone will not achieve any kind of noteworthy marketshare (typical of him), and the iPhone comes out of left field to reshape the smartphone landscape. And now it seems WinMo is on a schedule that will put them chronically behind everyone else.
I think MS should just scrap WinMo 7, since it'll be already obsolete on arrival, and just fast-track WinMo 8.
Ballmer said in 2007 that the iPhone will not achieve any kind of noteworthy marketshare (typical of him), and the iPhone comes out of left field to reshape the smartphone landscape. And now it seems WinMo is on a schedule that will put them chronically behind everyone else.
I think MS should just scrap WinMo 7, since it'll be already obsolete on arrival, and just fast-track WinMo 8.
Keep in mind that the iPhone is but one device (ok, so it's technically two, but they're very similar), whereas there's hundreds of different Windows Mobile devices out there. Rather like the Desktop OS, it has to be designed to cater for a wide variety of devices, many of which share completely different input options. Not everything has a touch screen, for example. Plus, even though only newer devices (and very recent ones, via firmware updates) will actually run Windows Mobile 7, it has to maintain a fair amount of backwards compatibility.
Hopefully that' one first step from Microsoft towards an WLM client for the iPhone !
+1 for Beejive
It's good to see Microsoft is not ignoring the iPhone
It almost replaces the Maps app for me, besides the fact that it isn't meant to be a replacement for it. :p
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